Gabriele Di Piazza, VP Products & Solutions, VMware

Following the release of OpenStack Queens, VMware has announced the newest version of its VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), version 5.0. But how do the specific needs of telcos differ from those of the average enterprise user of OpenStack, and how will the enhancements in VIO 5.0 actually benefit CSPs? For a telco using another vendor’s distribution of OpenStack and who wants to move to VMware’s OpenStack, what’s involved and just how difficult is that transition?